A.M. v. State

A.M., a juvenile, appeals an adjudication of delinquency based on two multiple counts of sexual battery, sexual battery using force, sexual intercourse with a family member, and lewd and lascivious assault. The two victims, ages ten and eleven, are the defendant’s sister and niece.

After A.M. had run away from home, and had been gone for about a week, the alleged assaults came to the attention of *1186the woman who was the mother1 of one girl and the stepmother of the other girl. At the nonjury trial the victims testified that A.M. had sexually abused them, at times in the presence of each other.…